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The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Why I Hate Frameworks
Never a truer word spoken in jest! Whilst frameworks, design patterns, managed environments and their ilk can be a fantastic thing, the abstraction away from the "bare metal" does sometimes make me long for the "good old days" where incorrectly using a pointer could bring down the entire machine. Or even better, having to handcraft something as simple as a radio button. Or even better, having to write thousands of lines of code just to control a mouse. Bring back DOS, that's what I say! ;)

Marco Dorantes' WebLog : You are 100% accountable for your source code
A subject very near, and very dear, to my heart. The line "Once a source code sentence is introduced in main code branch, it must be kept correct in itself and in relation with the rest of the code" sums it up really. Design and implementation should, in an ideal world, be the minimum required for the functionality desired. Anything else increases the maintenance requirement and also the testing requirement. Planning, managing and implementing the testing regime is hard enough for a piece of software without hypothetical requirements and functionality being interwoven into the system. Who in their right mind would want to add this level of risk to a system?